Random Pictures

Ransom said:
There's no connection between Christian Science and Scientology apart from a few similarities and the superficial resemblance of the names. Christian Science was inspired by the New Thought movement of the mid-19th century, while Scientology was pretty much made up by L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s as he went along.

Their founders were both paranoid and sue-happy toward critics. Their respective "theologies" deny the reality of the material world. But I think it's a coincidence that both are influential in Hollywood. Scientogy has promoted itself pretty aggressively to celebrities since the beginning; it was a way of buying credibility. Christian Science is an older American new religious movement that was pretty well established and respectable by the time of the golden age of Hollywood, and it seems to me its appeal was a bit more grassroots.
Click to expand...
Gnosticism repackaged.
 
my dads basic dive gear... .. this is the stuff he drags out when he;s going spearfishing with us.... ..just the basic freediving gear.... .. .. he uses the same basic gear for scuba diving - just ads a tank.. or set of tanks... and regulator.... ..(wet suit selection depends on how deep they are going and whether it;s a work dive or a rare pleasure excursion...🤿...)

dive stuff 004.jpg
 
aleshanee said:
my dads basic dive gear... .. this is the stuff he drags out when he;s going spearfishing with us.... ..just the basic freediving gear.... .. .. he uses the same basic gear for scuba diving - just ads a tank.. or set of tanks... and regulator.... ..(wet suit selection depends on how deep they are going and whether it;s a work dive or a rare pleasure excursion...🤿...)

View attachment 6826
Click to expand...
What’s the approximate weight of this setup without a tank?
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
What’s the approximate weight of this setup without a tank?
Click to expand...
good question.... i don;t really know the actual weight... . but of all the gear bags we load into the jeep when we go - his is the heaviest.... even with his canteen empty... ... .. most of that weight comes from the fins.... .those scuba pro lightning jet fins he uses are monsters... old school heavy rubber - and the biggest ones they make... ...also indestructable...... .

except for the canteen we all pretty much carry the same gear.... ...fins - mask - snorkel .... reef walker boots and wet suit pullover top - leather gloves and at least one knife... a mesh bag to carry it all.... .. ..plus a hawaiian style sling spear... (not in the picture).... . . ..we don;t carry weights or loaded weight belts inside the gear bags.. .. those all stay together in a big bucket and are only pulled out when ready to be put on.....
 
aleshanee said:
good question.... i don;t really know the actual weight... . but of all the gear bags we load into the jeep when we go - his is the heaviest.... even with his canteen empty... ... .. most of that weight comes from the fins.... .those scuba pro lightning jet fins he uses are monsters... old school heavy rubber - and the biggest ones they make... ...also indestructable...... .

except for the canteen we all pretty much carry the same gear.... ...fins - mask - snorkel .... reef walker boots and wet suit pullover top - leather gloves and at least one knife... a mesh bag to carry it all.... .. ..plus a hawaiian style sling spear... (not in the picture).... . . ..we don;t carry weights or loaded weight belts inside the gear bags.. .. those all stay together in a big bucket and are only pulled out when ready to be put on.....
Click to expand...
There’s a YouTube channel I sometimes watch called FatalBreakdown. They feature a lot of videos about scuba divers and people spelunking in caves. Those can be quite dangerous activities for even the most experienced folks.
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
There’s a YouTube channel I sometimes watch called FatalBreakdown. They feature a lot of videos about scuba divers and people spelunking in caves. Those can be quite dangerous activities for even the most experienced folks.
Click to expand...
I lost all desire to explore caves when I read about that one dude who got stuck between the floor and the ceiling of a cave and no one could get him out. He died there and the cave was permanently sealed. Apparently, it was a popular spelunking spot because of the tight squeeze getting through. NAY! NAY!

I'll go into a cave if it has an established path with lighting. The Caves of Drach on the island of Mallorca are a fascinating tour. You follow a path to the world's largest subterranean lake and sit in bleachers. Then they turn out the lights and it is a dark like no other. Then the music starts... Boats come out and a classical music band comes out and plays music. At first you see a small light on the water as the boat comes out from behind a wall... After the music plays, the lights are slowly brought back up. The acoustics in there are amazing.
 
Last edited:
abcaines said:
I lost all desire to explore caves when I read about that one dude who got stuck between the floor and the ceiling of a cave and no one could get him out. He died there and the cave was permanently sealed. Apparently, it was a popular spelunking spot because of the tight squeeze getting through. NAY! NAY!

I'll go into a cave if it's an established path with lighting. The Caves of Drach on the island of Mallorca are a fascinating tour. You follow a path to the world's largest subterranean lake and sit in bleachers. Then they turn out the lights and it is a dark like no other. Then the music starts... Boats come out and a classical music band comes out and plays music. At first you see a small light on the water as the boat comes out from behind a wall... After the music plays, the lights are slowly brought back up. The acoustics in there are amazing.
Click to expand...
That sounds amazing!
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
There’s a YouTube channel I sometimes watch called FatalBreakdown. They feature a lot of videos about scuba divers and people spelunking in caves. Those can be quite dangerous activities for even the most experienced folks.
Click to expand...
i posted a few videos of cave diving emergencies and tragedies in the hac forum worthless thread.... .... but a few guys said they found it too disturbing.. .... and in truth it was... .. but also in truth i had not even gotten to the old vhs dive training videos we have in our collection yet....the ones related to the type of deep submergence saturation diving my dad use to do... . .. those pull no punches about showing what happens to the human body in a sudden overpressure or rapid decompression emergency..... ...but probably not appropriate for the forum ...

but i will post the picture he used on one of the old forums for a spoof character
he created right after he retired from commercial diving........ he called it
empty dive suit.... wrote a few stories to go with it..... . but unlike the
malicious spoof and sockpupppet characters people create here -
everybody knew emptydivesuit was him..... it was all for fun..

EmptyDiveSuit_zps4457d93f.jpg
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top